[KDE-India] Re: No KDE this year at FOSS.IN?

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
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On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Atul Chitnis <mail at atulchitnis.net> wrote:
> Ahem. Touchy, aren't we? I didn't jump to any conclusions - I listed out some possible reasons for KDE's absence, and wanted to know what the issue is. So it looks like you owe me an apology here. I was earnest, you got nasty.

Ok, but what I said was humble enough, so I guess no apology needed.

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> Our research showed that more colleges have exams late November and early December, which is why we looked for later dates.
>
> IAC since when was the KDE community students only? From what I know, the most active members of the community are in fact gainfully employed.

Yeah, you're right, its not students only. But the most active members
of the community are students, which can result in less attendance
(very college-ish, isn'it it ;) ). But that doesn't mean there will be
zero attendance, the people who don't have exams etc will be
submitting talks etc.

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> Atul Chitnis
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> On 07-Oct-2010, at 7:44 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <jhahoneyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Atul Chitnis <mail at atulchitnis.net> wrote:
>>> Yep, that's the only KDE talk. Tons of Gnome talks. Did KDE die in India, is no one interested in speaking about their work, or is the community just leaderless, ie no one is driving it anymore?
>>
>> No, its just that this time the FOSS.IN dates are clashing with almost
>> all of the students' exams. My final exams are from 10th December to
>> 24th December, so I can't come and talk.
>>
>> And, Kindly do not reach such conclusions [Did KDE ... it anymore]
>> without knowing reasons, its really not amusing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
>> http://www.shantanutushar.com
>>
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>>> Atul Chitnis
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>>>
>>> On 07-Oct-2010, at 5:32 PM, Abhishek Patil <abhishekworld at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  well I have submitted for kate plugin but dont know about rest of the
>>>> kde team ..
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday 07 October 2010 05:10 PM, Atul Chitnis wrote:
>>>>> How come no KDE submissions for FPSS.IN/2010? The CfP closes on the night of Oct 10th. http://foss.in/cfp
>>>>>
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